Imagination Quotes

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas A. Edison

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Mark Twain

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

Christopher Isherwood

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Harry S Truman

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Eug? ne Delacroix

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Anon.

It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.

Marquis de Sade

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Noam Chomsky

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Lauren Bacall

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Bruce Lee

Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.

Jose Vasconcelos

I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Ursula K. LeGuin

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common - Sense.

Helen Rowland

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

Lawrence George Durrell

Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.

Nathan Campbell

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

David Bailey

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

Napoleon Hill

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Barbara Garrison

Imagination rules the world.

Napoleon I

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.

Adele Brookman

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

Albert Einstein

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.

Robert J. Collie